Underwriting

Project Mental Health

AFP is also looking for individual and corporate underwriters for a Project Mental Health initiative and speaker series in 2027.

AugustaFreePress.com is dedicated to putting a focus on mental health challenges in the region, identified as one of the major issues facing Shenandoah Valley residents.

Spearheaded by AFP, and with input from more than a dozen organizations in the region, the initiative was launched in April 2022.

AFP co-founder Crystal Abbe Graham will oversee the planning and implementation of the project in 2027 and beyond. She has dedicated more than a decade to efforts to end suicide, both as a volunteer and in a professional capacity. She served as the state director for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for one year overseeing community and campus walks that secured 120 corporate sponsorships and raised nearly $650,000. She received training and was certified to teach SafeTalk, a half-day workshop designed to prepare community members to become suicide alert helpers. For her role in suicide prevention, she was honored with the Dr. and Mrs. C. Lennart Sanquist Prevention Award from Mental Health America of Augusta.

AFP is also looking for sponsors to add a full-time mental health writer to our staff to continue our commitment to sharing resources in the community and addressing the region’s health challenges.

In 2027, AFP is planning:

• Stories focused on mental health challenges and resources and agencies making a difference
• Podcasts featuring mental health and substance abuse experts from the region
• In-person events and panels aimed to educate and empower residents to play a role in suicide prevention and mental health and substance abuse awareness and treatment

Topics will include suicide prevention, how to help someone in crisis, ways to combat seasonal depression and how to navigate the holidays.

For underwriting information, contact Crystal Graham at (540) 949-6574 or [email protected].

Donate to Augusta Free Press through our fiscal sponsor, the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation.

Tax-deductible donations for Project Mental Health may be sent to:
Alternative Newsweekly Foundation
attn: Augusta Free Press
253 Tennessee Ave NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
(Check should be payable to Alternative Newsweekly Foundation. To ensure the donation goes to AFP, please include Augusta Free Press in the memo portion of your check)

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